Eye Roll: CBS Uses New Poll to Pump Up Liberals, Insist Abortion Is Top Midterm Issue

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by Curtis Houck

Monday’s CBS Mornings furthered the liberal media-wide narrative that their friends in elected office still have a chance to win the midterm elections as, thanks to the latest CBS News Battleground Tracker, CBS’s experts believe Republicans will only come away with an eight-seat advantage in the House tanks to the supposed popularity of expanding abortion.
 
Fill-in co-host John Dickerson teased of the poll showing “how the President’s big moves lately could affect the midterm elections” while co-host Tony Dokoupil boasted in the lead-in that “there has been a recent shift on where the voters stand on some key issues, including how the President is handling the economy.”
 

 
CBS News elections and survey correspondent Anthony Salvanto delivered the supposed good news:

Back in July, John, after talking to voters in all these congressional districts, we were seeing Republicans with a lead to take control of the House. You need 218. They were at 230. But in our latest estimate, again talking to voters in all these districts, Republicans go down to 226, so a little bit of momentum for the Democrats back the other way.

Dickerson followed up by tying the margin to abortion: “[L]ast week, we had primary races and a special election, which abortion favor — was a very important issue. Is that coming up in what you’re seeing?”
 
Salvanto explained that not only had “Democrats overperformed their numbers from the past,” but “[l]ikely voters are more likely to say they’re going to the polls to support abortion rights then to oppose them and that is occurrent to the Democrats.”
 
“Democrats are making some gains among key groups, including among women voters — including among women voters, they have risen in support with — including white women with college degrees, up from 45 to 54,” he added.
 
However, he neglected to mention that, just below the 41 percent of voters saying they were going to the ballot box to support abortion and 16 percent to oppose abortion, 43 percent said their vote wasn’t about abortion.
 
Therefore, a combined 69 percent of voters will cast their ballots either to support life or with other issue(s) on their mind.
 
The pair nonetheless kept up the focus on abortion before pivoting to Republicans:

DICKERSON: So, it’s not only — it’s a motivating issue for them. It’s not just they’re — they have an opinion about abortion. It’s actually changing the way they believe about this election.
 
SALVANTO: Democrats now say it’s the most important thing.
 
DICKERSON: Now, let’s talk about the Republicans. Since you and I last talked, Donald Trump has had a visit from the FBI to Mar-a-Lago. How is that showing up in your numbers?
 
SALVANTO: Yeah. There’s a couple of things here. One is that Republicans say they want the party to support Donald Trump on this. That’s important politically because it, A, motivates their base to turn out, but, B, puts pressure on those party leaders not to criticize him, right?
 
(….)
 
SALVANTO: [F]or the rest of the electorate, Donald Trump is a net negative and, if you look at where he’s a factor, and — by the way — he is a factor for most people, which is unusual for a midterms — it’s a former President, right — but there’s more people out there to oppose him than support him, so this is Republicans being motivated, but for independents and Democrats, it’s against him.

 
The pair closed by promoting Biden’s approval number inching up and voters feeling better about the state of the economy by five points to 31 percent.

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Idiot Biden’s trillion dollar loan responsibility transfer program will be shot down. There will be many, many sad faces on those who thought they fell into clover and then found out it was just shit.

Diesel costs are going back up. Inflation is still rampant. Idiot Biden just pissed away any imaginary “debt reduction” on his loan forgiveness. Inflation will continue to climb, the fed will continue to fight it and the markets will tank and tank again. These incompetent idiots are making payments on their credit card balance using the same credit card and their failure is going to come crashing down… HARD. Real soon.

Democrats have done nothing to benefit the American people and no matter how much the leftist media tells themselves bad is good and failure is success, it’s not going to change the reality.

Abortion is a state issue, as it should be.

That said, I support Congress trying to pass a federal abortion law, legally and Constitutionally, if they can.

That’s how our Republic works.

Roe was intentionally ran through the SC because they were bypassing the Law. There is no “codifying” Roe at this point.

Why should crossing a line on a map of the United States suddenly turn something recognized as a standard medical procedure for half-a-century into a felony punishable by imprisonment? We’re citizens of the United States of America, not citizens of any state or county.

Some of the same republican pinheads that were previously blathering about “personhood from the moment of conception” are now furiously backpedaling as November approaches.

Lots of luck with that. “No abortion, no exceptions” is what they’ve done, and they’re going to be held accountable for it at the ballot box.

Ditto for enabling all of Trump’s past and ongoing bullshit. Know what will happen if Trump is indicted? He’ll stand trial. Forget about Lindsey’s riots. They won’t happen. The vast majority of his voters are law-abiding citizens. The January 6 mob doesn’t represent the average person who voted for him. The average American was appalled by January 6.

@Greg

Why should crossing a line on a map of the United States suddenly turn something recognized as a standard medical procedure for half-a-century into a felony punishable by imprisonment?

Oh, I don’t know… because it’s THE LAW? Because we live under the CONSTITUTION? Because just because it may be convenient, a person doesn’t get to MURDER another person?

“No abortion, no exceptions” is what they’ve done, and they’re going to be held accountable for it at the ballot box.

And where is that the law? You seem to be the only person that believes your own lies.

Forget about Lindsey’s riots. They won’t happen. The vast majority of his voters are law-abiding citizens.

That’s right, as opposed to Democrat supporters who will resort to violence at the drop of a hat. But, even the law abiding can only be pushed so far, as is the case of every incident of self defense. Even a law abiding citizen will take extreme actions to protect themselves when under assault and the totalitarian police state the Democrats are creating is a definite real and present danger to every law abiding citizen in the once United States of America. Even the law abiding citizen will strike back at spoiled, crybaby thugs emboldened and incited by accusations by those like idiot Biden calling anyone that disagrees with their corrosive and divisive as “fascists” and “extremists”.

The January 6 mob doesn’t represent the average person who voted for him.

That, too, is correct. They represent citizens angry about Democrats destroying our Constitutional democratic republic being incited and led by FBI operatives with the goal of creating an incident to be blamed (unsuccessfully) on Trump.

@greg

Lots of luck with that. “No abortion, no exceptions” is what they’ve done, and they’re going to be held accountable for it at the ballot box.

Abortion is far from the top issue for all Americans in the upcoming November mid-terms.

Insist Abortion Is Top Midterm Issue

Fake news

Rallying their base around baby killing is a desperation move, much like trying to indict President Trump for what has been done by his processors.

The democrats cannot win elections based on policy because their true policies are antithetical to the American people.

Just when you think this regime cant top the already mentally ill appointments they come up with this Guy for a Monkey Pox Tzar .
Joe the Good Catholic?
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Guess what. Abortion IS a top midterm issue.

09/08/22 – Michigan Supreme Court says abortion question must go on ballot

This is how it should be handled in every state.

Guess what. Abortion IS a top midterm issue.

Perhaps, but not in the way you think.

This is going cost Democrats votes, not gain them any.

Regardless of party, every American knows a sedated population who doesn’t make babies and tries to make adolescence permanent will die out in a generation…

…or less.

Women are realizing that having an abortion so they can have a “career”, and die alone with their cats, is a fate worse than death…

@greg
“This is how it should be handled in every state.”

No. That’s direct democracy, and if you’re going to do it as a way to bypass elections, it’s unconstitutional.

Now if EVERY issue is decided like that….and we got rid of reps and represented each citizen by their own word…that would work.

I’m all for a direct democracy. It cuts out the possibility of political parasites like Pelosi and McConnell.

But you shitheads are trying to use it as a bypass of Constitutional Law.

No deal.

Win your elections with a better platform, and STOP F*CKING CHEATING!

@Greg

Guess what. Abortion IS a top midterm issue.

No, it isn’t. Idiot Biden’s disastrous economy, inflation, high energy prices, recession, open border and crime are the top issues.

09/08/22 – Michigan Supreme Court says abortion question must go on ballot

This is how it should be handled in every state.

Really? I though you wanted activist judges to make law from the bench and invent “rights” that are, in reality, merely “desires”. You mean, you WANT to abide by the Constitution?

Remember “gay marriage” on referendums? Failed every time and had to be “invented” as a right. Put your death cult abortion religion to a vote and be prepared for the results. The majority don’t want abortion up to the moment of birth. Some people actually respect life.

In Michigan, voters can amend their state constitution or create a statute by a ballot initiative. In a true republic, the will of the people actually counts for something, and a majority of the people can override the will of their elected officials. 26 states presently have a constitutional initiative or veto referendum process.

A few days ago, Michigan republicans blocked a measure to secure abortion rights in the state’s constitution by refusing to recognize the peoples’ petition. The Michigan Supreme Court quickly pointed out that this was in violation of the state’s constitution. So now it becomes a ballot referendum.

@Greg

In Michigan, voters can amend their state constitution or create a statute by a ballot initiative.

Yeah, that’s what was SUPPOSED to have happened when they arbitrarily changed the voting by mail rules, but, of course, they didn’t bother with any of that.

In a true republic, the will of the people actually counts for something, and a majority of the people can override the will of their elected officials.

No, that’s straight democracy and it’s tyrannical.

Our REPUBLIC was designed so you just couldn’t use mass media and lots of money to buy a “majority” of votes.

That’s what you people are doing: trying to destroy the Republic so you can use the Tyranny of the Majority to install an autocracy.

The tyranny of the majority (or tyranny of the masses) is an inherent weakness to majority rule in which the majority of an electorate pursues exclusively its own objectives at the expense of those of the minority factions. This results in oppression of minority groups comparable to that of a tyrant or despot, argued John Stuart Mill in his 1859 book On Liberty.[1]

The scenarios in which tyranny perception occurs are very specific, involving a sort of distortion of democracy preconditions:

Centralization excess: when the centralized power of a federation make a decision that should be local, breaking with the commitment to the subsidiarity principle.[2] Typical solutions, in this condition, are concurrent majority and supermajority rules.
Abandonment of rationality: when, as Tocqueville remembered, a decision “which bases its claim to rule upon numbers, not upon rightness or excellence”.[3] The use of public consultation, technical consulting bodies, and other similar mechanisms help to improve rationality of decisions before voting on them. Judicial review (e.g. declaration of nullity of the decision) is the typical way after the vote.

You are an uneducated fool, literally lying in your definitions of things.

Republicans know that abortion IS a very big issue, that could blow them all up in November. And so…

09/13/22 – Graham proposes 15-week abortion bill, dividing Republicans ahead of midterm elections

This is interesting. It could be seen as a compromise offer, or as a cynical means to let republican candidates seem less authoritarian and more open to reason, or as a bomb to blow the GOP in two.

What it won’t do is come to a vote before the elections, so it can be whatever voters imagine it is.

The only danger would be if Democrats said, Yeah, ok, we’ll accept that as a national compromise on abortion that’s legally binding in all states, and enshrine it in legislation.

That might turn it into the GOP-splitting bomb.

Abortion is not a big issue for November. It is a big issue in a small minority of low information voters. I guess you missed the new inflation numbers that came out today. Amidst the pomp and celebration of more deficit spending, James Taylor sings fire and rain, a song about suicide, and the real inflation is hitting Americans where it hurts most. 17 straight months of declining wage growth, now that is something to celebrate if you are a fascist.

You said you know who and what you had voted for. This is the faultof all of the low information voters who voted for benito biden.

The two most important issues for November are the two I’s, inflation and immigration.

Lindsey Graham is trying to sabotage the MAGA ascendency by proposing an idiotic bill that has zero chance, he is a fag moron.

Republicans know that abortion IS a very big issue, that could blow them all up in November.

It’s really not. It’s just the desperation of the Left.

Healthy babies and healthy families don’t need the state to be their god.

@Greg
Do you think Democrats will endorse Graham’s proposal or will they cling to their lust for abortion up to and past the moment of birth? It was the Democrat’s radical desires for completely unfettered abortion at any time for any reason; do you think they will accept some limits on their demands?

I don’t.

You don’t seem to understand that there are TWO sides of the abortion issue. Not everyone interested in it supports unrestricted abortion; in fact, the majority doesn’t.

Pardon my laughter.

Abortion is not a big issue for November. It is a big issue in a small minority of low information voters.

Biden to Pay $80 Per Barrel to Fill Strategic Oil Reserve – Two Years After Democrats Blocked Trump From Filling Reserve at $24 Per Barrel

That is the type of economic savvy that has inflation at record highs

I’ll say the ame thing.

Abortion is not a big issue for November. It is a big issue in a small minority of low information voters.

You won’t be laughing in November.

Then why are republican candidates purging extreme anti-choice language from their web pages?

It won’t matter. Women know what they’ve done, and what they’re still doing.

Backing off from their enthusiastic endorsement of Trump’s stolen election lies now that they’ve bagged their republican primaries won’t work either. It’s pathetic that they believe American voters are that stupid.

NOT KIDDING: Democrat Senator issues “a call to arms” against pro-life Americans on Senate floor

Democrat Senate Candidate: “We Have to KILL” – “Extremist” Republican Movement (

@Greg
Graham has proposed a federal law that allows abortion up to 15 weeks. Are Democrats going to compromise and codify the “right” to an abortion or will they cling to their human sacrifice death cult and reject reasonable regulation?

Graham just yanked that abortion rug right out from under you. NOW you can laugh.

@Nathan Blue

Abortion is not a big issue for November. It is a big issue in a small minority of low information voters.

It is the only issue the democrat party has to run on.

They can not run in the economy or border security

Trump is a dangerous fraud, and Putin is a homicidal lunatic. Global warming is real, and billionaires are taking everything. Inflation is out of control because irrational tax cuts have forced the government to create money to pay the bills, destabilizing the dollar’s value. Republicans have taken control of young women’s bodies, mandating that fertilization must result in a birth. Republicans support a man who used a mob and lies to try to overturn an entirely legitimate election, and would do so again.

There are your Democratic Party issues. A Democratic vote in November is a vote against all of the above.

@Greg
I don’t know if you’ve ever put so much bullshit in one post. Everything you state is an absolute desperate lie. All your “Democrat issues” are lies. Your entire ideology is completely based on lies and nothing else.

Of course, out of control crime and a dangerously wide-open southern border are not on your little fantasy list. Democrats have caused these disasters and have no clue how to reverse them, short of simply re-enacting Trump’s policies.

“Inflation is out of control because irrational tax cuts have forced the government to create money to pay the bills”

Sounds like the daily gaslighting we hear from the black lesbian to the press corps.

Benito biden has spent 4.7 trillion in 18 months, all deficit spending.

Psychosis R Us…

Satanic panic is making a comeback, fueled by QAnon believers and GOP influencers
Baseless accusations are branding people as satanist pedophiles at the speed of the internet — just ask a GOP prosecutor who recently lost re-election.

…Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green, R-Ga., credited the devil with whispering to women who choose to have abortions and controlling churches who aid undocumented immigrants. In June, she tweeted a video of a man dressed as the devil, stating that the mythical creature would be the next witness called by the House Jan. 6 committee. “They all know him, they all love him, and some even worship him,” she wrote.

Charlie Kirk, the president of one of the largest conservative groups in the country, Turning Point USA, recently opined that Republicans should “use the law to shut down Satanism.” Last year, Fox News host Tucker Carlson expressed his opinion on trans people, telling his viewers, “When you say you can change your own gender by wishing it, you’re saying you’re God, and that is satanic.” The Republican nominee for Missouri’s St. Louis County executive, the top job in the local government, is currently suing her former employer over its mask mandates, citing their use in “satanic ritual abuse.”

And after President Joe Biden’s recent speech on the threat that “MAGA Republicans” pose to democracy, the very subjects of his warnings framed the president’s address as “satanic,” because of the red lights illuminating the backdrop of Philadelphia’s Independence Hall…

@Greg
The Democrat party is Satanism. They worship human sacrifice (abortion), denounce God and Country. They promote sexually abusing children and make sexual abuse of children normalized. Maybe it’s just mental illness, but for people who believe in such things, it looks pretty close to Satanism. That’s YOUR problem, not ours.

But, which is worse: calling what looks like Satanic activity Satanism or calling everyone that has a political difference is an “enemy of the state”?

Comrade Greggie, I understand you don’t believe in God but if you are going to disparage those who believe in Good vs. Evil I think we should rally to demand the Satanist appointed as the HIV czar for the CDC be fired as we are, to your dismay, a Judeo-Christian nation.

You’re sick in mind and body.

@Greg

You forgot to mention Charlie Crist calling DeSantis “DeSatan”. Why would you not mention that? And what is the basis for calling DeSantis Satanic?

09/20/22 – These male politicians are pushing for women who receive abortions to be punished with prison time

A businessman turned state representative from rural Oil City, Louisiana, and a Baptist pastor banded together earlier this year on a radical mission.

They were adamant that a woman who receives an abortion should receive the same criminal consequences as one who drowns her baby.

Under a bill they promoted, pregnant people could face murder charges even if they were raped or doctors determined the procedure was needed to save their own life. Doctors who attempted to help patients conceive through in-vitro fertilization, a fertility treatment used by millions of Americans, could also be locked up for destroying embryos, and certain contraception such as Plan B would be banned.

“The taking of a life is murder, and it is illegal,” state Rep. Danny McCormick told a committee of state lawmakers who considered the bill in May, right after the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade was leaked.

“No compromises, no more waiting,” Brian Gunter, the pastor who suggested McCormick be the one to introduce the legislation, told the committee…

This is why the first statement of the First Amendment separated Church from State.

Last edited 1 year ago by Greg

Sucks to be you

Abortion not a midterm issue.

Americans are focused on economy and immigration

Abortion not a midterm issue.

Yeah, you saying that will definitely make it so.

Not everyone interested in abortion wants to kill babies, you know.

And then you have Democrats that want abortion up to full term and, if a baby actually survives that, to just be killed on the table.

Maybe you should consider compromise.

Only six states don’t have restrictions on late term abortion already, and that’s a rare procedure that isn’t done without good reason. The right has distorted reality and propagandized that just like they do everything else.

Now there are states that will let a woman die or be permanently damaged rather than allow an abortion. They’ll force a rape or incest victim to give birth to her rapist’s child, rather than allow an abortion. They’ll force a RAPED CHILD to give birth, and rant and rave when there’s quickly a case that backs the assertion up.

That’s what the GOP has done—and that’s NOT propaganda. It’s FACT.

Last edited 1 year ago by Greg

Having a restriction and enforcing it are two different things. It’s not rare and Democrats want it to be performed for ANY reason. They don’t care; ABORTION is the point. Worship of abortion is the goal. Democrats will not consider ANY protection for the unborn and that has brought us to this point. You couldn’t even respond to my question to you about Graham’s proposal. Why not? Who are you afraid of if you give your personal opinion.

There is NO state that will let the mother die instead of allowing an abortion. None, and therein is the problem with reaching a solution; people like you have to LIE in order to defend your abortion cult. NO ONE is forced to give birth; every state allows for abortion. EVERY STATE. Your dedication to the most barbaric use of abortion IN THE WORLD is what brought about the restrictions.

And, why? Well, you make it clear: for VOTES. Just like with immigration reform, Democrats, since they have nothing else, prefer the contentious issue to a solution. That way, with the aid of their left wing propaganda mills, they can LIE (just as you have done), incite hate and division and hope it yields their side a few votes.

Late term abortion is opposed by the majority. THAT is a losing gambit for you.

The point is a woman’s fundamental right to sovereign authority over her own body. Her choice whether to continue a pregnancy or not is none of the State or Church’s business.

What the GOP has done obviously ISN’T ABOUT late term abortion. The laws they’re passing AREN’T ABOUT late term abortion. Forcing a ten-year-old-child to continue a pregnancy resulting from incest or rape ISN’T ABOUT LATE TERM ABORTION.

There is NO state that will let the mother die instead of allowing an abortion.

How magnanimous of them all. That’s complete bullshit. They’re setting up situations where doctors will have to consider the possibility of prison when making decisions about what emergency treatment they can offer when dealing with rare life threatening complications of miscarriage. “Try not to bleed out, kid. I’m waiting for a return call from my lawyer…”

They’re setting up situations where women will have to carry doomed or hideously deformed fetuses until they’re born.

That’s what they’re doing. They have no damn right. It’s an unforgivable and unconstitutional violation of an individual’s right to choose.


The GOP did this: La. woman, denied an abortion for fetus without skull, says she’ll seek the procedure out of state

Last edited 1 year ago by Greg

What the GOP has done obviously ISN’T ABOUT late term abortion.

Yes, it is. You obviously never pay attention because you are blinded by your devotion to your cult. None of the more restrictive laws were proposed until the Democrats began pushing their barbaric abortion up to delivery and beyond policies.

Every state allows abortion. It is up to the individual to address the situation in a timely manner before the fetus can feel pain and is viable. Again, your human sacrifice cult brought this on. You are going to have to accept the restrictions that respect life. It is scientific biological FACT that another human being forms inside the mother after conception; it’s not my fault or the fault of any other MALE that this is how our species reproduces. There is a point in the pregnancy beyond which we do not pass for abortion. You spoiled brat, whiny, crybaby, “my way or the hiway” leftists need to come to grips with reality. NEVER is murder for convenience a “right” of anyone.

DEMOCRATS did this. You had to make your policy that murder is permitted when someone is inconvenienced. Your inhuman devotion to your cult of human sacrifice is indefensible. Take your shit to the Amazon rain forest. Build yourself a pyramid there and carry out your religious cult. It’s not compatible with the culture and morality of the United States of America.

Last edited 1 year ago by Just Plain Bill

I bet if Democrats could get them to check a ballot, abortion would be outlawed outright.